CIA Director John Brennan said the outgoing administration of US President Barack Obama overestimated the outcome of the Arab Spring, in expecting democracy to take root in the region. In an interview broadcast Monday on CNN, Brennan said that although the people in the region wanted individual freedom, “the concept ...
Certain members of the UN Security Council are still fomenting the conflict in Syria and are seeking to oust the Syrian Bashar Assad’s government rather than ending the war, Russian Envoy to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said Tuesday. “Work on Syria inside the Security Council has never been easy. ...
